THE LOGIC OF SLEEP-LEARNING: Page 15

conscious receives and retains all stimuli regardless of whether the subject is awake or asleep. Similarities have been noted between some stages of hypnosis and normal sleep, in that the same influences can bring about either state. Elimination of strong stimuli, a position of rest, gentle, monotonous stimulation of the sense organs, dismissal of disturbing thoughts—all these, added to the subjects' passivity, have been accepted as proven methods for putting people to sleep, either naturally or hypnotically. The influence of suggestion has operated not only on people in a hypnotic state, but on people in light sleep as well. In dreams, we accept without question many things which our conscious minds would reject, as do people under hypnosis. It has been found that the subject remembers more of the suggestions made to him in light hypnotic sleep; it has also been found that the dreams we remember are those that occur during light sleep, during which people have been known to converse logically without being conscious of their participation. This is referred to as the 'Reverie Period/ and is of particular importance in sleep-learning. Most people are susceptible to suggestion in their waking hours, susceptible to a much higher degree than they realize. In every life situation, we are exposed to many subtle suggestions, all of which influence us. We catch moods, we yawn involuntarily when we see another yawn, we pick up rhythms, we respond to ideas under the influence of charm, affection, and numerous other feelings, we accept much on faith in fields other than our own, we are influenced by books, clothing,